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• Authorities arrested 18 suspects in connection
with a $10 million organized theft ring that allegedly stole and then sold raw
copper from an Asarco LLC mine in Hayden, Arizona. – Phoenix Business
Journal

1.April 30, Phoenix Business Journal – (Arizona) 18
arrested in connection with Arizona copper theft ring. Authorities arrested
18 suspects in connection with a $10 million organized theft ring that
allegedly stole raw copper from an Asarco LLC mine in Hayden. Several workers
were charged with helping steal semi-truck loads of copper mined at the site
and selling it to metal recyclers throughout the U.S. as well as on the Chinese
black market. Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2013/04/30/18-arrested-in-connection-with-arizona.html

• Washington’s Chelan County Public Hospital
No. 1 was the victim of a cyberattack that moved $1.03 million out of the
hospital’s payroll system. Organized hackers in Ukraine and Russia performed
the attack and used 100 accomplices in the U.S. to move the money. – Krebs
on Security

23.
April 30, Krebs on Security –
(Washington) Wash. hospital hit by $1.03 million cyberheist. Chelan
County Public Hospital No. 1 in Washington was the victim of a $1.03 million
breach that moved the money out of the hospital’s payroll system. Organized
hackers in Ukraine and Russia used a work-at-home scheme to carry out the
attack with the help of 100 different accomplices in the U.S. Source: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/04/wash-hospital-hit-by-1-03-million-cyberheist/

• Two employees at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric
Hospital in Las Vegas were fired and 3 were disciplined in an ongoing
investigation into the hospital’s practice of sending mentally ill patients to
other States. – Sacramento Bee

24.
April 30, Sacramento Bee – (Nevada) Two
hospital workers fired over ‘dumping’ of Nevada psychiatric patients. Two
employees at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas were fired and 3
were disciplined in an ongoing investigation into the hospital’s practice of
sending mentally ill patients to other States. Investigators found that 10 out
of nearly 1,500 patients were placed on buses within the last 5 years without
proper housing, medication, or contacts once they reached their destinations.
Source: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/30/5381856/two-hospital-workers-fired-over.html

• Researchers found that the U.S. Department
of Labor’s Web site was infected and used to spread malware the morning of May
1. – Threatpost

25. May 1,
Threatpost – (National) U.S. Department of Labor website discovered hacked,
spreading PoisonIvy. Researchers found that the U.S. Department of Labor’s
Web site was infected and used to spread malware May 1, though the malware was
later removed. The attack collects system information from the victim’s
computer and then a malicious payload is downloaded via an Internet Explorer
vulnerability, and appeared similar to some previous intelligence-gathering
campaigns. Source: http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/us-department-of-labor-website-discovere/240153967

34.
May 1, The Register – (International) Mozilla
accuses Gamma of dressing up dictators’ spyware as Firefox. Mozilla, the
developers of the Firefox browser, filed a cease-and-desist order against Gamma
International, developer of the FinFisher intelligence/law enforcement spyware,
after the spyware was found imitating the Firefox installer file to infect
users’ systems. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/01/mozilla_gamma_cease_and_desist/

36. April
29, Big Horn Radio Network – (Wyoming) Communications Outage. Communications
Company Century Link announced that a mile of fiber optics line was damaged and
needed to be repaired after a third party cut the fiber optic line April 29,
causing a blackout which affected emergency services dispatch centers. Source: http://www.mybighornbasin.com/Communications-Outage/16220517

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About Me

U.S. Army Retired Chief Warrant Officer with more than 40 years in information technology and 35 years in information security. Became a Certified Information Systems Security Professional in 1995 and have taught computer security in Asia, Canada and the United States. Wrote a computer security column for 5 years in the 1980s titled "for the Sake Of Security", penname R. E. (Bob) Johnston, which was published in Computer Decisions.
Motto: "When entrusted to process, you are obligated to safeguard"